Process of making explosives.



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hereinafter given by weight: potassium chlosaltpeter should be dissolved in a quantity of source of heat and the potassium chlor 'te UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES C. SMITH, OF LOVINGTON, ILLINOIS Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1905.

Application filed March 20, 1903. Serial No. 148,777-

Be it known that l. J Anus C. Snrrn; acitizen of the United States, residing at Lovington, in the county of Moultrie and State of Illinois, have inventeda new and useful Process of ManufacturingExplosives, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to process of mandfacturing explosives, more especially to blasting-powder; and the object thereof is to piyoduce an explosive ofthe character specified which may be cheaply compounded, which will produce but little smoke and that of an inoffensive and noninjurious-character, and which may be handled as safely as any similar compound.

In the manufacture of my improved blasting-powder I make use of the following ingredients, incorporated in the manner presently to be described and in the proportions rate, thirty-five percent; granulated sugar, twenty per cent; potassium nitrate of saltpeter, ten per cent; carbon in the form of pulverized stone-coaL. thirty-five per cent. In manufacturing blasting-powder from the ingredients above mentioned the sugar and water just sufiicient for the purpose by apply ing heat until the sugar and saltpeter are completely dissolved. The solution is to'be heated to the boiling-point, then removed from t I e requiring correction, as follows: In line [SEAL] added to the heated solution. The chlorate will be thoroughly dissolved by the heated solution, and when the solution of the chlorate is complete the stonc-coal in finely-pulverized form is added and mixed thoroughly, so forminga plastic paste. dried ina suitable kiln and when thoroughly dried is leduced to grains of the size desired by crushing the dry cake in a mill made of wood. 1

-l-laving thus described my invention, what i claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is--- In the manufacture of grain-riar explosive composition, the process of bringing into aqueous solution specified proportions of granulated sugar and saltpeter, applying heat to the mixture to eil'ect boiling, then adding thereto upon conclusionof the boiling operation specified proportions of potassium chlorate until solution thereof is effected, then adding a specified proportion of powdered stone-coal, thoroughly mixing the ingredients to form a'paste, then drying, and finally pulverizing the same, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES C. SMITH- Witnesses:

BYRON CHEEVER,

WILLIAM L. CorrLn."

It is hereby certified that in. Letters Patent No. 795,940, granted August 1, 1905,

upon the application of James C. Smith, of Lovington, Illinois, for an improvement in Processes of Making Explosives, an error appears in the printed specification 23 the Word 6f should read or; and that l.) the said. LettersPatent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the .Iatent Ollice. I

Signed and sealed this 3d day of April, A. D., 1906.-

F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

The paste is then Qorrection in Letters Patent No. 795,940.

re uirin correction, as follows:

It, is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 795,940, granted August 1, I905,

of Lovington, Illinois, for an improvement in Processes of Making Explosives. an error appears in the printed spvcificauon In line 23 the word of should read or; and that,

the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record 01 the case in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed and sealed this 3d day of April, A. D. 1906.

F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patenlr. 

